I did QA for Electronic Arts a long while ago. And I thought it was an AWESOME job. Besides playing the "same thing over and over again," we had a hand in setting Time-Trial times, scores for scored events, and stuff like that. And besides all that, we had a cafeteria where we could eat and get fat, ping-pong tables, pool tables and big screen tv's, A large soccer field where you could play soccer and volleyball, a basketball court where we held basketball leagues (competitive and casual), hockey leagues (comp. and casual). Yeah, you spend A LOT of time in a LARGE room with a bunch of other testers (the majority of which are male ) but you'll still manage to mingle with "the higher ups." (the QA were pretty much the bottom rung, but we had good times.) I played regular ping-pong and pool (9-ball) with one of the developers. I never managed to beat him though. He was freakin' good! LOL I only have fond memories of testing for EA (for the most part.) Though, the area of the games I tested, I was required to play the games from start to finish, so I wasn't stuck playing one part of the game over and over and over again like some of the testers were required to. That being said, I DOUBT that what was posted in the Original Post will be anything like my experience at EA.